Provisional Agenda: Policy and Outlooks Authors Meeting for the Seventh Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7)

Meeting objectives:

1. Move the Policy chapters towards zero order draft quality, by: • Improving coherence of chapter text • Reducing overlap and duplication in content • Ensuring sufficiently well-developed solutions pathways • Addressing any gaps that are noted.
2. Continue the drafting of the Outlooks chapters towards zero-order draft quality, including: • Detailing the modelling approach and any preliminary results • Ensuring a good link with the solutions pathways in the policy chapters • Detailing what the peer reviewed literature says about outlooks for the five UN regions.
3. Facilitate dialogue and collaboration between international assessment experts and Chinese policymakers to address environmental challenges on a global scale.
4. Raise the awareness of the GEO-7 process in China and attract media focus on key environmental issues. Meeting Documents : • GEO-7 annotated outline • GEO-7 scoping document • Current drafts of the ‘how transformation happens’ chapter • Current drafts of the ‘solutions pathway methodology’ chapter • ‘Spaghetti diagram’ linking goals, levers and solutions • Tool for outlining goals, actions and levers in solutions pathways • Current drafts of solutions pathways chapters • Current drafts of outlooks chapters • GEO-7 Policy Questions